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I have seen a large number of raids saying " Looking for more ICC 10,must be geared" How do I know whether my current gear is good enough for ICC 10? I've been running my *** off in the new 5-mans trying for upgrades and in every raid I can get into,but my luck is off so far, I keep getting outrolled. I've tried both Femaledwarf and the spreadsheet linked but they don't answer my questions to the extent that I need.

Gear link in the profile at the bottom.

Total noob here. I'm having trouble. I just got my first taming quest and I used the rod wrong. Now it says no more charges left. How do I complete the quest? Thanks in advance.

Hi, i have afew questions regarding a solo build.

Im currently a lvl 73 SV Hunter with a Boar. Ive finally managed to save enough money to purchase Dual-Spec talents after getting all my Riding training and having enough cash ready for cold weather training.

First question is id like to make a solo build in BM and this is what i came up with, im not all that interested in doing major damage in this build, i just want my pet to hold aggro and survive:
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#cVbh0ggRiuheRt0xVbo:fc0zM0
Is there anything that you think is not needed in there or anything im blindly missing?

Second question is ive read that Devilsaur seems to be the way to go for BM but when i used Ferocity pets on my SV Hunter they couldnt seem to hold aggro of Black Arrow and Auto-shot alone, is this going to be different when i switch to BM? Like the First question is there anything im blindly missing in this talent tree for Devilsaur:
http://www.wowhead.com/?petcalc#cu0cbf00zhoRb

Thanks in advance.

I'll add that you're using the wrong meta. Relentless Earthsiege Diamond is the way to go. Your geming wasn't that far off. Without knowing the back story, they may have just been criticizing that you still have blue quality gems.

Edit: In case it needed to be said, 20 Agility in everything else.

Edited, Jan 18th 2010 11:52am by HunterJones

OHHHH!! I didn't know there was a 21 agil/3% crit gem. I will definitely pick that up today.

Been using female dwarf website, and reading about gemming a hunter. I've taken the knowledge I learned last time I was here.

Dietoliveko
Wow Heroes has a better gem display, I am Dietoliveko on Shu'Halo US servers.

I think right now my gems are great except for the haste and rare quality gems. Someone told me not to use purple agil/stam gems, but the socket bonus is greater than 4 agility, and I didn't really find a better gem to shove into them. Also I am under the 1.5 second steady shot haste soft cap and I lose a little bit of potential dps when my lock and load procs. :(

Other than making everything an epic gem, I think I have this gemming aspect down. Comments?

NOTE: Harsh criticism incoming, I'm not going to sugarcoat anything and I'm going to search for any mistakes I can find in your characters and logs.

Your entire raid is failing on dps, you need 7.5k average from all dps to kill him.
For your log, the firts thing you want to do is look at things like DoT uptime (Serpent sting 64%, what happened to the other 36%? Black arrow 45.7%, what happened to the other 16.8%?) and add up shotcount/global cooldowns used to see how much time you used in the fight (and how much you wasted)
Look lower in this post to see how I've done that.

For your char, you have 60 hit too much yet you have a hit gem and you got the 264 T10 gloves while those give hit, as well as icewalker on your boots.


1: Why do you have haste and rare quality gems?
2: Never use agi/stam, your argument for it is flawed. If you're gaining 12 attack power by using an agi/stam gem over an agi gem you are also losing 10 agility.
If one 10 agi/10 crit gets you a socketbonus of 4 agility or better, grab it else the socket bonus does not exist.
3: How on earth can you lose dps from LnL proccing?


Looking at your armory, you are 74 hitrating over cap, using weak enchants and gems, you don't have Go for the Throat (which is easily 2-300 dps) and honestly you're just underperforming for ICC at 4k dps.
You're also using awful leather boots that are loaded with hit you don't need, go work on replacing those as soon as possible as well as regemming and enchanting to proper enchants.

Looking at the log, your raid has no place in ICC.
Your dps need to all be doing at least 5-6k dps to get anywhere.
Looking at you specifically on the Marrowgar kill, it takes less than a second to spot some obvious problems.

Shotcount:
41.66 explosive shots (125 ticks)
28 Aimed Shots
25 Steady Shots
14 Black Arrows (70 ticks)
12 Serpent Stings (60 ticks)
9 Kill shots

That makes for 130 Global Cooldowns used.
130 global cooldowns of 1.5 seconds each is 195 seconds or 3:15.
Fight length: 8:47 - 3:15 = 5 minutes and 32 seconds where you were doing nothing.
I know that Lock and Load "wastes" a bit of time, running from bonestorm wastes a few steady shots and such but there's no excuse for this.



Edit: For combatlogs, please look at them yourself first and do these simple things like checking uptime and GCD usage instead of just posting it and doing nothing yourself.

Edited, Feb 14th 2010 1:13pm by Aethien

No you didn't.
Explosive shot DoT: 2 seconds.
Global cooldown from shooting Explosive: 1.5 seconds.
flight time/built in delay to make it look realistic: ~1 second.
Your next ExS is going to have the same flight time, ExS > 0.5 sec > ExS > 0.5 sec > ExS = win.

No again, it's about blue gems.
Look at the example I gave you, you used an agility/stam gem to get 12 attack power.
If you had used a 20 agility gem and ignored the socketbonus you would have had 10 agility instead of 12 attack power.
I mean.. seriously.. look at what you're doing and think about what it gives/costs you before actually doing it.

[quoteregemming and enchanting to proper enchants[/quote]. What do you mean by "regemming" and proper enchants? I've always been told that the +agi gems and enchants are the best ones,for a surv hunter,apart from the +attack enchants on my weapon? I know my boots are crap,working on replacing them..

I was busy switching between bone spikes,dodging walls of coldfire flames,since running into it is generally a bad idea and bonestorms at the time.The entire raid was told to hold off dps during bonestorm mode to avoid him aggroing,which may account for the uptime. Also it's hard to avoid steping in the flames when he managed to fill the entire corner of the room where I was standing with mutiple walls of fire.

Also I am saving the +20 agi gems for frost and ICC stuff since they are expensive as hell,and I don't fancy wasting my money on stuff that I'll be upgrading frequently. Same goes for the best enchants since the mats are also expensive.


Edited, Feb 20th 2010 4:23am by ozwwjd

Thanks for yopur input and esp the anaylsis of my DPS info. It's made me realize how unprepared I am for raiding,and as you said,if I wish to raid ICC I shouldn't be trying to cut corners on gems and enchants.

True, that works too if your tanks can use the little extra threat.